families

A guide for young girls on family-related issues that covers parents, siblings, and problem solving; and describes activities to build family memories. Features tear-out coupons.

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Looks at families in Italian, with main text on each page provided only in Italian, and simple, labeled photographs for support. Includes each vocabulary word in Italian and English with a pronunciation guide.

In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, which leads to an important discovery.

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route, while Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

Twelve-year-old Anita de la Torre faces the problems of adolescence alone against the backdrop of political upheaval in 1960s Dominican Republic.

Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their lineage and find out what really happened to their parents.

Amy and Dan, following a clue found in Book 3, set out to uncover details about the origins of the rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of their family, not realizing they are headed right into the hands of the enemy.

"A biography of American comedian and actor Adam Sandler"--Provided by publisher.

Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett--a boy who is on a quest of his own--help her cope.